On Fri, Aug 12, 2016 at 01:12:47PM -0500, Bruce Dubbs wrote: > I have just committed an update to LFS that clears all the tickets for the > book. The package freeze is scheduled for two days from now and I know of > no impending upstream releases between now and then. > > If anyone has any changes that need to be addressed, please post them here > or open a ticket. > > I do have one concern that I'd like to discuss. When doing an update, I > usually build the entire LFS system, including all checks in Chapter 6. I > started this process last night, but the checks for perl hung for about six > hours. Killing the process and just re-running the perl build/checks and > continuing completed the rest of the build without further issue. > > I've seen the perl tests hang before after glibc-2.24 was installed, but not > every time. The fact that just rerunning the checks passes points to a > timing issue. To me the most likely culprit is glibc, however I can't be > sure. > > My first question here is whether anyone else has seen this problem? The > second issue is how we should address it, if at all. > > Suggestions welcome. > I assume your hang was not in lib/Benchmark ?
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